5 Ways To Protect Yourself Against Obamacare
At Forbes, Denver physician Paul Hsieh explains five ways to protect yourself against Obamacare: Continue reading
The Antiplanner’s Library: Coming Apart
One of the subthemes of the Antiplanner’s latest book is that there is a growing divide between the middle class (meaning people with white-collar jobs and their families) and the working class (meaning people with blue-collar jobs and their families). Charles Murray‘s latest book, Coming Apart, explores this split in … Continue reading
Why seniors should fear Obamacare
“[S]eniors will be less desirable patients to doctors than welfare mothers. Harvard health economist … seniors may have to seek care in the same places that now cater to Medicaid beneficiaries: at community health centers and in the emergency rooms of safety net hospitals.” Continue reading
Back in the Air Again
Today the Antiplanner is flying to Oakland to speak about Gridlock at CSU East Bay. The event is sponsored by the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies. Tonight, I’ll be speaking in Pleasant Hill to a Contra Costa County citizens’ group about Best-Laid Plans in in particular about problems with urban planning as it is […]
Falcon 49 Moves Forward on Teacher Career Track Innovation: A Delicious Idea
Just when someone might think the innovation process in Falcon School District 49 has stalled out (just one school got rid of tenure so far?), here comes a pie in the face. Not a yucky key lime pie in the nostrils, mind you, but a delicious chocolate cream pie surprise that you can lick off […]
Are “entitlements” corrupting the United States?
Runaway spending on tax-funded entitlement programs is having a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens Continue reading
Density’s Parking Impact
The City of Portland has approved numerous massive four- and five-story apartment buildings in neighborhoods of single-family homes separated by streets of single-story shops. These buildings stress the infrastructure built to handle a smaller population, which is most obvious in the increased traffic and parking problems–especially since many of the buildings are designed without parking. […]
Intrusive government turns neighbors into enemies
Political meddling in what should be our personal decisions turns those with different preferences into enemies. Continue reading
What Happened to the Environmental Movement?
The environmental movement has lost its way, argues a Montana filmmaker, who is using Kickstart to raise funds for his film about the movement. J.D. King isn’t anti-environmentalist, but he is skeptical about where the movement is going. Other than what can be seen in the above pitch, I don’t know what the movie will […]
Michael Johnston’s Best-Ever Education Speech Inspires Funding Reform, Too
In a recent column for Forbes magazine, communications expert Nick Morgan gave Colorado some great kudos with his recognition of “The Best Speech About Education–Ever.” He was praising this great speech our state senator Michael Johnston made last month in Connecticut about “what’s possible and what’s next.”
Watch the speech, and you’ll see why Johnston’s passion, […]
What now?
The November 6 election outcome has many friends of the Constitution dispirited. As so often before, they hoped that by defeating federal candidates contemptuous of constitutional limits and replacing them with others, they could help restore our Constitution. Obviously, that decades-long strategy has failed—spectacularly. They also have long hoped that by appointing the right people […]
The Case for Privatizing Amtrak
On Monday, the Cato Institute will release the Antiplanner’s latest paper, Stopping the Runaway Train: The Case for Privatizing Amtrak. Antiplanner readers can preview the paper today. Amtrak’s Empire Builder outside of Glacier National Park, September 13, 2010. (Click image for a larger view.) The case against Amtrak is simple. Before Amtrak took over the […]
